TDP’s push for no-confidence motion in vain as Lok Sabha gets adjourned

19th March didn’t prove to be a successful day for TDP.  The Parliament was adjourned before the matter of TDP and YSR Congress’ no-confidence motion could be taken up. Unlucky TDP will have to wait another day for their exit out of the alliance to be successful.

The motion fell just short of being passed as the Speaker couldn’t count how many MPs were in favour of the move. Even though opposition parties such as Congress, Trinamool Congress, NCP, SP, and RJD extending their support to the move, when the Speaker called the members to stand up to take count, members from TRS and AIADMK  held up placards and surrounded the Speaker’s dais. The Speaker was then unable to take a count.

She adjourned the parliament for the day saying, “Please go back to your seats. The House is not in order I will not bring the notices.” Rajnath Singh though said that BJP was ready for a discussion on the matters, he also appealed to the parties to cooperate on the matter. This is the second time the issue hasn’t proceeded in the Parliament.

The Modi government has also said that should the no-confidence be passed they will face a challenge in the Lok Sabha. Shiromani Akali Dal said that while they may not back the no-confidence motion they still support the demand for the special Category status for Andhra Pradesh.

We are in favour of special category status to Andhra Pradesh. We are not in favor of no-confidence against the Modi government, we will support the government: Prem Singh Chandumajra, Shiromani Akali Dal #budgetsession pic.twitter.com/WGyCwTOk2R

— ANI (@ANI) March 19, 2018

The aim of the no-confidence motion is not to make the government fall, it was clarified said TDP’s RM Naidu but it was to gather support from all the other parties. The no-confidence motion is still yet to be decided and the more it gets prolonged the more anxious both BJP and TDP are going to be.